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A Geronimo plugin is a jar-structured file that contains a META-INF/geronimo-plugin.xml descriptor following this schema:

{snippet:url=https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/trunk/framework/modules/geronimo-system/src/main/xsd/plugins-1.3.xsd|lang=xml|linenumbers=true}

Most plugins are Geronimo modules which means they include a classloader description, service configurations ("gbeans"), and possibly classes and resources. For instance, if you deploy a javaee application on geronimo, it turns into a geronimo module containing the description of the app's classloader, gbean configurations for the javaee components (web apps, ejbs, etc), and the classes and resources from your application. The additional information in the Geronimo plugin descriptor includes:

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